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Google Diminishing Support For IE6
Search giant Google has announced that as of March 1, two of its web services (Google Docs and Google Sites) will stop supporting IE6. The company is urging users to switch to IE 7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome 4.0+ or Safari 3.0+ so as to ensure that they are able to use the latest web applications [...]
The Piteous State of The Online Newspaper Websites
The story of the great Indian newspaper has been around quite a while. However, news nowadays is not the same as it used to be years ago. No more waiting for that 9 o’ clock news or for the next day’s paper to find out what happened. Today, people want news to be delivered to [...]
Google Will Limit Free Access to Paid News Sites: New Opportunity for Smaller Publishers?
Google has announced that it will limit a user’s access to content on a paid news site. According to BBC, Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google. Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites. Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages.
Google Launches Commerce Search Engine For Shopping portals
One of the reasons many portals avoid integrating Google site search is the lack of customization which Google offers to them despite it earning top notch dollar for search keywords. This will be a thing of the past if Google expands its line of customized search solutions as it has launched a [...]
Breaking: Google News Makes You The Editor!
Google News has just announced on its official blog that it is now switching on a feature called custom sections directory, which allows you to create custom sections on your Google News homepage and share with others. You can think of it as your own magazine rack. Or just think of yourself as a news [...]
Google Introduces Fast Flip And Shares Revenue With Publishers For The First Time
Google has come out with an all new way to access and read news. With Fast Flip, Google makes news a more print like commodity and delivers and innovation that perhaps publishers should have been the first to try. And to make it happen Google has also gone out of its usual ways and done a revenue share with publishers.
Real Time Search On Google And We Didn’t Even Know That (Nearly)
Ran Geva, CEO of Omigli has found an interesting hack to make Google come up with real time search results. He should know it well, for Omigli is a specialized search engine that crawls UGC on many ‘real time’ platforms on the web. What Omigli does is besides the point for the time being. The real question how do you make Google deliver real time results.
Google Likes It Bi(n)g: Increases Search Box Size, Creates More News and Blog Posts To Crawl
Last night I changed a the height of a content box in one of our websites and even added a new page but nobody noticed. Google’s Marissa Mayer who is the VP for Search Products & User Experience there posted on the Google blog that they have changed the size of Google’s search box on the home and results page and it lands on Techmeme. A lot of people are downright confused and to an extent agitated why this piece of news should get so much attention. Though there are quite a few voices who consider it important though for no particular reason other than the fact that Google is doing it.
7 Reasons Why You Should Fear Google
Google has over the years diversified from being a just a search engine to a digital media products company. Also over the years the importance of search and its use as a window to the world has increased incredibly. So much so that people instead of giving their business cards say “just google me!”.
The dominant [...]
Google Rolls Out Image and News search features.
Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news.
The first feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching images and allows users to sort through the results of an image search more easily by clicking on a “similar images” [...]
The Tussle Between Newspaper Publishers And Google – A Report
Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, had to visit a convention of newspaper executives to put to rest the tension surrounding newspaper industry in the US which is accusing Google of succeeding at their expense.
What’s the publishers take?
The publishers are up in arms with Google news service and various other services where Google [...]
Historical Newspapers Go Digital, Thanks to Google
Google, which recently turned 10, has been expanding itself in every direction possible. The search giant has been growing at an alarming scale and is valued around $150 billion in the market with over 20,000 employees under its roof. Google has established itself as the most powerful 10-year-old today. And it certainly has a long way [...]
Google news on your Mobile devices
Google has announced availability of Google News for mobile devices in India. Google recently launched Gmail on mobile phones in India. Users can browse latest news on their web-enabled mobile devices by visiting news listed under
http://www.google.co.in/xhtml
http://www.google.com/mobile/news/faq.html
Google has recently launched a free Japanese-language news service for mobile phone users in Japan. Google News aggregates headlines [...]